BORN

1992, West Virginia

EDUCATION

• BFA Pratt Institute, Brooklyn NY (2014)

• Certificate Program in Design Entrepreneurship, Brooklyn Fashion + Design Accelerator, Brooklyn NY (2015)

AWARDS + RESIDENCIES

• La Moissie Creative Residency, Belvès, France (2026)

• Ideas Island Artist Residency, Stockholm, Sweden (2022)

• Shoppe Object Featured Artist Award, New York City, New York, US (2021)

• Google Artist in Residence, New York City, New York, US (2021)

• Varda Artist Residency, Sausalito, California, US (2020)

• Textile Arts Center Studio WIP Residency, Brooklyn, New York, US (2019)

• Varda Artist Residency, Sausalito, California, US (2019)

• Varda Artist Residency, Sausalito, California, US (2018)

• Varda Artist Residency, Sausalito, California, US (2017)

• Positive Impact Award, Brooklyn Fashion + Design Accelerator, Brooklyn, New York, US (2015)

• Junior Venture Fellowship, Brooklyn Fashion + Design Accelerator, Brooklyn, New York, US (2015)

• Windgate Fellowship, The Center for Craft Creativity and Design, Asheville, North Carolina, US (2014)

• YMA Fashion Scholarship Fund Award, New York City, New York, US (2013)

EXHIBITIONS

• High Pile: Concepts in Tufting, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, California, US (CURRENTLY SHOWING UNTIL DEC 13 2026)

• It’s About Time: 2 Centuries of WV Women Artists, Paragon Fine Art Gallery, Lewisburg, WV, US (2024)

• Patchwork Halves, Kimpton Permanent Collection, Frankfurt Germany, (2024)

• What You Think vs. What You Feel Shades of Green, Industry City Mural Project, Brooklyn, New York, US (2024)

• What You Think vs. What You Feel, Wanted Design, Brooklyn New York, US (2023)

• The Way Back, Etsy Headquarters Permanent Collection, Brooklyn, New York, US (2022)

• Home, Bittersweet Home!, Alas Artelier, Brooklyn, New York, US (2021)

• The Start of the Day is the End of the Dream, Shoppe Object, New York City, NY, US (2021)

• Contemporary at Heirloom, Heirloom Rugs Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, US (2021)

• What You Think vs. What You Feel, Ace Hotel Permanent Collection and Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, US (2021)

• Mind Map, Google Headquarters Permanent Collection, New York City, New York, US (2021)

• Material Roots, Hera Gallery, South Kingstown, Rhode Island, US (2019)

• Sense of Shelf, Lucas Lucas Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, US (2019)

• Geometric Series, Bird Brooklyn, Brooklyn, New York, US (2019)

• Provisions, Provisions NYC, Brooklyn, New York, US (2019)

• Tufted No. 1-3, WeWork Permanent Collection, Washington DC, US (2019)

• Summer Swimming, Bird Brooklyn, Brooklyn, New York, US (2018)

• Collection 2, Not Just A Label Made in New York, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York City, New York, US (2015)

• Collection 1, Sky Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, US (2015)

PUBLICATIONS

• Peters Valley School of Craft (Print), Timeless Textiles: Mediums Revealed, Volume One, April 2025

• The Thread,Tufted Textiles: The Madcap Art of Caroline Kaufmanby Rosie Lesso; October 2023

• American Craft (Print), Tufting Magic by Emily Freidenrich, Winter 2022

• Cover Magazine (Print Issue 66), Tufted Art: Caroline Kaufman by Lucy Upward; March 2022

• Making Magazine (Print), Bright Volume 2: Caroline Kaufman, by Leila Raven, July 2022

• Levis Monthly Muse, Off The Cuff: Caroline Kaufman; November 2021

• Architectural Digest, A Buzzy Brooklyn Hotel that Mixes Art and Activism by Avantika Shankar; September 2021

• Milk Decoration (Paris, France), Expression Colorée: Caroline Kaufman by Muriel Françoise; August 2021

• Wallpaper Magazine, Brand New Ace Hotel Brooklyn is Entwined with Fibre Art by Harriet Lloyd-Smith; August 2021

• The Context, Caroline Kaufman: Inside Her Brooklyn Homeby Megan O’Sullivan, April 2021

• Metropolis Magazine, Meet the Makers Behind the Tufted Rug Renaissance; by Leila Stone, March 2021

• Made My Wardrobe, Studio Sessions with Caroline Kaufman; February 2021

• Heirloom Brooklyn, Contemporary at Heirloom: Caroline Kaufman; November 2020

• Financial Times (Print London, UK), The Art and Design Issue: Caroline Kaufman; October 2o2o

• Cover Magazine (Print Issue 61), Caroline Kaufman’s Little Bits of Heaven; October 2o2o

• Vogue Magazine, Inside Caroline Kaufman’s Dazzling World of Funky Textile Art; By Brooke Bobb, July 2019

• Charleston Gazette, Charleston native forges her own path as knitwear designer, November 2017

• New York Times (Print), Are You Ready for the Cold? Really Ready? By Erica Blumenthal, January 2016

• Frankie Magazine (Print Melbourne, Australia), Wild and Wooly: Caroline Kaufman, September 2016

• “The Craft Companion” (Print Australia) by Ramona Barry and Rebecca Jobson; Thames & Hudson Publishing, 2015

• Woolful Podcast Episode 7, Knitting in Fashion, Color, Working for Yourself; January 2015

• Zeum Magazine (Print Toronto, Canada), Caroline Rose Kaufman; July 2014

• The Cut,Pratt’s Eclectic Student Fashion Show; May 2014

• Women’s Wear Daily, Pratt Honors Past and Present; May 2014

• Charleston Gazette, Local Fashion Designer wins Windgate Fellowship, May 2014

• “Sourcing and Selecting Textiles for Fashion” (Print) by Erin Cadigan; Bloomsbury Publishing, February; 2014

TEACHING + ARTIST JURY PANELS

• Instructor, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York, 2017-present

• Jury Exhibition Panel, Peters Valley School of Craft, Timeless Textiles: Traditional Craft Meets Contemporary Art, 2025

• Residency mentor, Textile Arts Center, Brooklyn, New York, 2020

• Guest Speaker, Textile Arts Center, Brooklyn, New York, 2020

• Artist Talk and Workshop, Google, 2021